Web Performance Optimization (WPO)?

Websites in every domain – ecommerce, enterprise, social networking, entertainment, publishing, healthcare, retail are becoming increasingly complex these days. Users manage, upload and maintain tera bytes (huge amounts) of data online. They expect real-time updates and information exchange at the speed of an eye-blink. We want news, notifications, newsfeed as it happens; when it happens. We expect web systems to process, analyse and do data analytics quickly so we may visualize and track the efficiency of our product/s.
Web Performance Optimization (WPO) is the science behind giving users that seamless experience on the browser where they get all information they need in lightning speed without having to wait for the data to load on the page.

You may make a kick-ass site which has great features, has an aesthetically amazing UX and web design, and uses the latest technology frameworks and tools. You spend enough on marketing to send reasonable traffic to your site. However, you notice that there is NO sustained traffic or revenue. There are no repeat visits or traffic growth.. So, what could be the reason??
Ans. Your site is slow, it takes time to load and see information. This irritates the users and they don’t wish to come back!

Advantages of Website Performance Optimization

Website performance optimization drives leads and increases conversions. It increases visitor loyalty and retention. Your site will get more traffic and make more revenue.

Web applications which are optimized for performance have lower and reduced bounce rates.

Google blogged that faster sites will rank higher in their search results. This means that your site will be listed above and before that of your competitor on the google search results page if it is optimized for performance.

It costs less to run fast sites – fast sites need less compute cycles, store and send less data and use optimized technology for information retrieval and display. Hence the costs of internet bandwidth, storage and machines to host such platforms are less.

It gives Vitality and Its Cool - Users Love to talk about *fast* sites. You will get differentiated and stand out. Your site will gain from word of mouth publicity thereby saving on marketing budgets.

Best Practices for optimizing a website Performance?

A website or web platform essentially consists of two major components.

BACKEND - The backend which is the database and business logic cantered on I/O, file reads, lookups, information storage/Update, analytics, processing, web service calls and stitching together of the HTML to send to the frontend.

FRONTEND - The frontend which is the display technology around rendering of the page including network time for downloading all resources referenced in the page like JavaScript, images, CSS.

So the best practices for webmasters or website administrators for doing web performance optimization are:

Focus more on the frontend website optimization tips like:

Minimize the number of round trips from the web browser to your server

Reduce the # of resources to be fetched and downloaded to render the page

Once your site’s frontend and backend code is optimized, it is deployed on a hardware machine which acts as the server to handle the requests and provide the responses. Every machine has finite CPU, finite memory and finite capacity. Hence, you must know the max and min threshold number of requests your deployment machines can handle. As and when your traffic load increases beyond that threshold, you must set auto scaling and use cloud deployment techniques like elastic load balancing etc. to maintain site’s performance.
Sending more traffic to a machine above and beyond what it can handle will cause it to slow down the response of every request thereby affecting experience of all users.

Testing Web Performance

There are many tools available for testing web performance and getting some initial benchmark numbers. The three most common tools that you can self-deploy are:

Pingdom site speed test - http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ - Enter the website home page and get instant results on performance including load time, avg. comparison with other sites, page size etc.

Yslow – available in both Firefox and chrome as a browser extension, this tool will analyze your site’s performance and suggest improvement techniques on basis of some web speed rules.

For complicated web platforms, it is recommended to use open source tools which must be configured, customized and setup for that site. These can be used to do load testing, stress testing and extensive latency testing on the site.

Such tools allow us to simulate user traffic prior to launching the site in the real world. They can also be used to test performance f web services API calls in a simulated integrated environment

How Brain Tag Consultants will help to Optimize Web Performance?

What we do to Optimize Web Performance?

Optimize your site for performance – We advocate and following website optimization tips: (the best practices mentioned above) -
Frontend web performance optimizations

CPU profiling is a great way for testing hidden issues in code which are deep rooted and which affect site’s performance. These are difficult to dissect and fix. But profiling for memory and CPU is a great tool to identify and fix such hidden issues in performance.

Thread contention and improper locking – Often a backend code and core architecture problem, we can study the site’s code and reverse engineer on the design and architecture to find out such problems.

How we Optimize Web Performance?

Brain Tag has a team of cloud computing consultants and web 2.0 administrators who are super finicky about performance. We have compiled our own battery of tests from various protocols and standards.

We can audit and assess your existing setups – We can do website performance testing and benchmarking using various monitoring tools.

Our webmasters work with you team to fix all issues in code and deploy back on your version control.

We do a round of testing before and after our engagement to show you the speed improvements.

Continuous Monitoring
Websites and web platforms are dynamic in nature. New pages are added and new feature releases are made on a continuous basis. It is important to keep monitoring performance on a continuous basis to catch and identify code changes that may lead to sudden increases in page load time or response time.

Website Performance monitoring is the process of scripting and running tests on a regular basis so as to maintain the site’s performance whilst new rollouts keep launching.
Google Analytics can also monitor page performance and help catch such errors

Amazon monitoring tools like cloudWatch can be deployed to trigger email alerts to webmasters when their response time goes up – this helps in catching increases in things like database read time, database write time, CPU time, file I/O time.

The user network time and rendering time can be simulated with firebug to trigger alerts for the same. You can simulate various internet speeds and various locales to get the right numbers for the seconds it takes for end users to see the website.

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